Most Humans Are Vile Ignorant Scum

~I went to check the numbers on school shootings in 2017 to make a point about the number of gun deaths in Chicago, about half of which are Drug War related. I was honestly surprised. 650 people were shot to death in Chicago in 2017, so let's say about 300 Drug War deaths. In Chicago.

Fifteen people died in 'school shootings' in 2017. That's right, fifteen...in the entire country.

Four of them where the shooters themselves. One was an estranged husband who there went to kill his ex wife and then shot himself. One was a random shooter who didn't manage to kill any students, but all his five off campus victims were listed anyway, so the real total is actually ten, but we'll stick with fifteen.

So school shootings are not the 'new normal', but Drug War killings most certainly are, because we do not even notice them. Maybe because they happen in poor Black and Brown neighborhoods, and not in the mostly White Middle Class suburbs.

See how easy racism is, kids? You can be racist without a second thought and feeling full of Moral High Purpose. God Bless America.

Nebs Rants

~The whole 'US Military Is Undefeatable" argument is not only Fascistic, it's false. It has lost nearly every war it's fought since the end of WW2.

The primary purpose of The Armed Citizen is not to fight a guerrilla war against the US Govt. It is to make the idea of such a conflict so awful to said govt, that they never seriously consider imposing nationwide Martial Law.

The AR-15 is largely a symbol. It's an okay weapon that is cheap and easy to manufacture. So easy it can [and is] produced in garages with 3D printers and a few machine tools.

But quite a few folks out here have much more serious weapons and tens of thousands of US Vets know how to build and deploy IED's.

There are insane right wing militias up in Idaho and at least 100,000 armed gang members in LA alone. Banning the AR is a bullshit band-aid that achieves absolutely nothing.